Cuel

The cuel are Mapuche-built tumulus. The best known cuels are near the localities of Purén and Lumaco in Araucanía, south-central Chile. The first significant studies of the cuel were published by Tom Dillehay and José Saavedra in 2003 and 2007.[1][2] The word cuel is a neologism formed from the mapudungun word kuel, meaning boundary marker (Spanish: lindero) according to the 18th century dictionary of Andrés Febrés.[3]

A cuel in the valley of Purén amidst an Eucalyptus plantation (38°4′34.80″S 72°53′13″W).

References
  1. Dillehay, Tom. (2007). Monuments, empires and resistance. Cambridge University Press. 504 p.
  2. Dillehay, Tom D.; Saavedra Z., José (2003). "Interacción Humana y Ambiente: el desarrollo de Kuel en Puren-Lumanco (Region de la Araucania)" (PDF). Revista Austral de Ciencias Sociales (in Spanish) (7).
  3. Febrés, Andrés (1765). Arte de la lengua general del Reyno de Chile (in Spanish). Lima. p. 463.
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